An alternative approach to natural language query expansion in search engines: Text analysis of non-topical terms in Web documents

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1503-1516

  Fattahi, Rahmatollah ^a,b   Wilson, Concepción S ^a   Cole, Fletcher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

Author keywords

Natural language; Non topical terms; Query expansion; Search engines; Semi topical terms

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINES; NON-TOPICAL TERMS; QUERY EXPANSION; SEMI-TOPICAL TERMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 44349129959     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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